Climate Change May Be Responsible For Northern Russia's Mysterious Craters

Kim Bussing
2015-12-09T12:09:41-08:00

In July 2014, a helicopter pilot flying over Northern Russia's remote Yamal Peninsula came across a massive crater in the thick, permanently frozen subsurface layer of soil known as permafrost. As news of the gaping hole that measured an impressive 100-meters in diameter spread, people all over the world began wondering about its origin.